Back protector



F -4,1 30. J. ZWALLEY 1,7 61

BACK PROTECTOR Filed Oct. 31. 1927 O O U 0 O IN VEN TOR.

Patented Feb. 1930 Jomv zwALLnY, or snnnnronro, TEXAS BACK PROTECTOR Application filed October 31 1927. Serial No. 230,159.

'This inventionrelates to devices for protecting the backs of human beings at work, and has for its object to provide a means of relief from undue strain and fatigue.

' Referring to. theaccompanying drawings,

Fig. I represents a rear view of my back protector v;

of and Fig. 111 represents a means of attachvi'ng shoulder straps to a belt that is to go around a breast.

Referring further to the drawings, Fig.

i represents a rear view of my back protector,

thenumeral 1 leather,

representing a pad of lvithin canvas, or other suitablematerial.

thelower longitudinal portion of the saidipad- 1 is a rod 2 of metal or other suitablesub- 1' I. stance to the lowerlongitudinal portion of the pad 1 is attachedacloth 3, which cloth is attached also to another. smaller pad 4 which consists of leather, canvas, or other suitable f material, and a small plate 5' of, metal or other suitable substance to add rigidity to the pad 4:.

7 a third pad 6 vas,

two parts 16, 17 and to part 1 are attached'two shoulder straps 1818,.

From the lower longitudinal portion of this pad 4 cloth 3 extends to and is connected with which consists of leather, can'- or other suitable material. .Within the upperlongitudinal portion of this pad 6 there I 4 is a rod 7 of-metal or other suitable substance.

In the lower long tudinalportion" of pad 1;

in rod 2; in the upper and the lower longitudinallportions of pad 4 and plate 5, and in the upper longitudinal portion of pad 6-and in rod 7 are holes into which the terminations attached a belt in are fastened. To padlis 16 and to the pad veachstrap terminating in a buckle and hook attachment 1919 which maybe connected where desired in the row of'eyelets 20 along the upper longitudinal portion of the belt part 16.. Part 16 "strapsQl-Ql, at the lower termination of each of which straps isa buckle attachment 22+22. The upper terminationsof the two straps 21 -21 are formed into loops through Fig. II represents a front view there-' I felt onpad a lining of felt on straps 1818may .back pads being connectedto engages two connecting 1 the waist of a wearer of my'back protector. This belt 23 is attached to the lower longi tudinal portion of pad- 6 bymeans ofbuckle attachments 2%24 that pass through slits 25'-25inpad6.' a Fig. 11 represents a front view of myback protector in which the numerals 3-3 represent the cloth referred to inmy description v of Fig.1. Numeral26represents a lining of 1; numeral 27 represents a lining of felt on pad 4, and numeral 28 represents 26-27-E28 being intended to're'st against the back of a wearer of my back protector.

Fig; III represents a buckle and book at thejhook bY-IHQZLHS'Of which the shoulder.

' be connected with the belt part 16. It will be observed, when the terminations of thehook 19 are placed in eye'- lets along the upper longitudinal portion of the belt part 16, that each. of the connecting straps 21 hereinbefore referred to appears between the two terminations of the hook 19,

and, in this manner, that the connectingv straps are heldin place.

I'claim: I it In a back protector, a combination of reinforced back pads, an upper one, an inter-. mediate one, and a lower one, disposed hori- Zontally across the back of a wearer, the said one another by cloth andby spring members, pad. and the lower 'back' pad being con nected to each otherby spring members of --greater length, and a means for securing the upper part of theba'ck protector over the shoulders and around the breast of a wearer and a means for secur ng the lower partof;

the back protector around the waist of a wearer.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature.

JOHN ZWALLEY.

which the belt part 16is to pass. By means of v i the buckle attachments 2222 at the lower terminations ofthe straps 2121 these straps are connected to abelt 23 that is to go around 7 pad-6, these linings of felt tachment in which. the numeral 19 represents theupper back. 

